Peiping, Apr. 30.
One hears much about guerillas in h China and undoubtedly they are doing much for the Chinese cause but it is getting dificult to di tinguish between genuine guerillas, that is men definitely fighting China's Cause, and mere bandits, of" whom there have always been plenty.
News has just reached -Peiping of a piece of their handiwork at Tinghsien, 140 miles from here on the Kinhan railway. On the night of April 27 a large gang of bandits attacked a big Salvation Army hi pital there, ransacked the place and killed one of the officers, As a result the hospital is to be closed and large section of Hopei robbed of the benefits of a large and up-to-date medical centre.
This represented the third raid on the hospital, which is outside Tinghsien city and one mile from the railway station. The first raid was in December when armed uniformed men, probably genuine guerillas, visited the hospital and demanded medicines and bandages. These were supplied and the men paid for them.
In February there was a second this time by armed bandits who into the compound, threatened to abduct one of the officers and his infant son and got away with all available money, amounting to $1,700
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